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Miserable Friday

April 2nd, 2010

Good Friday, Huh?

What the fuck is good about it?

This is a day when Christians commemorate the day that their founder was tortured and executed, and they decide to call the day ‘good’?  That is weird.  Surely from their point of view, it would make more sense to call it Bad Friday or Sad Friday?

I always hated Good Friday.  I don’t know why.  In fact I always hated the word ‘good’ because, as a kid it meant not having fun.  Any time I was really enjoying myself, my mother would pop out from nowhere and tell me to stop.  “Put those matches away and be good,” she’d say, or “Stop playing with that carving knife and be good”.  Good just became synonymous with boring.

Then there was the church bit.  I used to be dragged off to church on a regular basis, and the sermons were always full of creepy stuff about nails through flesh, torture, suffering and blood everywhere.  It’s enough to twist any kid’s mind.  Then to cap it all, all the statues in the churches would be covered in cloth and wrapped up which used to really freak me out.

My mother was a very strict Catholic [my father had more sense but knew when to keep quiet] so Good Friday meant we got nothing to eat which was a pain in the arse.  I discovered years later that my father used to sneak off to less observant neighbours and scrounge a meal there. Cute bastard!  Apart from the lack of food, I wasn’t allowed to enjoy myself in any way.  Good Friday was a day for prayer and that was it.  It was the most boring dreary day in the calendar.

Then of course there is the shit about the pubs.

What the fuck is it with this country that pubs have to close on Good Friday?  I have heard excuses that it provides a day of rest for serious drinkers, which is a load of bollix because any serious drinker worth his salt is going to stock up on the hard tack the day before.  Or is the Catholic Church so unsure of itself that it’s afraid that if pubs are open that no one will attend church?  Why does the Catholic Church have any say in the matter at all?  I know the law stems back to the time when that bastard McQuaid ruled the roost here, but surely times are supposed to have changed?

It’s freezing cold and pissing rain outside.  The spring flowers have enough sense to stay well wrapped up in their buds.  It looks and feels like winter.  Good Friday, my hole.

At least Pullit has the sense to open the pub when he feels like it.

I think it’s a day for the High Stool.

Smoke and mirrors

March 20th, 2010

So this is a ‘very historic day for Ireland’, is it?

Well fuck me.

This is a day that will be taught about in history lessons to future generations?  This is a day that we will fondly reminisce over in future years?

To those of you abroad who are missing out on this momentous occasion, I feel sorry for you, for we in Ireland are the chosen ones.  You must be devastated.

You see, we have been sent a letter by an 82 year old member of the Hitler Youth!  Wow!  We are truly honoured.

Old Joe Ratzinger himself has written to apologise for the mayhem and chaos that his followers have caused in the past.  Apparently though it isn’t all their fault.  No.  We are to blame.

The cause of all the child abuse, rape, and general carnage was caused by our secularisation.  I can understand where he is coming from here.  If we had stuck with the good old days and if we still treated the clergy with the deference and adoration that they deserved, then none of this would have come to light.  We would still be stepping off the pavement into the gutter to let a priest pass and we would never have dreamt of questioning their little hobbies that involved our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters.  It never would have occurred to us to demand the resignation of the bishops and cardinals who ran one of the most efficient and organised paedophile rings that the world has ever seen.

I really feel honoured that he has written.  As an outsider to his flock, I do feel a little left out, as the letter is not being read to me personally.  That honour is strictly reserved for those few who, despite everything, still believe in Catholic Church Incorporated.

I am delighted to hear that Joe is sending over his minions to visit us all and to apologise in person.

I have it on good authority that they will be bringing with them many thousands of mirrors, because staring at our reflections seems to be the only way out of this mess.

Yes. 

It truly is a very historic day for Ireland.

Religion and Faith

March 16th, 2010

I was raised a Catholic back in the ‘50s and ‘60s.

I went through the whole gamut – convent education up to primary level, and the the Brothers for the rest.  As a result, I had the full works when it came to the brain washing game.  I was taught that the Catholic Church had the only direct line to God, and that everyone else was doomed.  I was taught that the Catholic Church was the only voice of truth, and that religious people were next to God himself.

Then I grew up.

I began to think for myself.  I began to question an organisation that preached poverty, yet lived in sumptuous mansions and whose head lived in one of the most sumptuous palaces on the planet.  Then the simple truth hit me.  It was so simple that it was blindingly obvious – the Catholic Church has absolutely sweet fuck all to do with Christianity.  It is merely a big business whose main objective in life is to dominate and hold power.

That is why I can now watch the likes of Sean Brady without feeling anything other than contempt.

This slimeball is slithering and sliming around denying any wrongdoing despite that fact that he aided and abetted one of Irelands worst rapists and paedophiles.  The deluded cunt actually believes his own lies – that he is a man of God and can therefore do no wrong.  I feel sorry for the people who believe in his lies.  They are deluded too.

I don’t believe in religion.  I don’t believe in a God who demands rituals and praying by rote.  I don’t believe in a God who demands that we dress in certain ways, or chant meaningless words that have been memorised since childhood and have long since lost their meaning.

I believe in faith.  I have my own faith which is personal.  It doesn’t have any organisation behind it, because I don’t believe I should be taught how or what to believe in.

If I were a follower of Richard Dawkins [which I’m not] I would use the argument that the Catholic Church is the greatest proof that God does not exist, for if God existed, would he tolerate such a corrupt, deluded, power crazy mob using His name to further their ends?

Brady is a pathetic immoral nonentity who should be treated with the contempt that he deserves, along with all the rest of the mob who covered up the evils that the Catholic Church bestowed upon our nation, and most other nations on earth.  I couldn’t give a shit whether he resigns or not.  He is no more relevant to me than any other manager in any other big money making corporation on this planet.

Fuck him.

Bankrupt

February 17th, 2010

The two major items on the news yesterday were the bishops and their meeting with the pope, and Willie O’Dea trying to defend the fact that he is a perjurer.

First of all, we had the unedifying spectacle of a group of men dressed in skirts grovelling to an ex member of the Nazi Youth Party.  It was a nauseating sight – grown men kissing the fucking ring of an old fart who thinks he is God Almighty.  And what was the outcome of this meeting?  A torrent of verbal diarrhoea that means sweet fuck all.  There were no expressions of responsibility or real remorse, just the usual platitudes stating that child abuse is a ‘heinous crime’ and a ‘sin’.  Big fucking wow!  So the self appointed guardians of our morals have discovered that child abuse is wrong?  Well, slap me on the face with a wet kipper.

Then we had the case of a government minister who swore an affidavit in the High Court knowing it to be a pack of lies.  He was caught out on his lie, but did he give a shit?  Not at all.  He sat in the Dail with a smirk on his face as our Glorious Leader defended him and claimed that he had made ‘a genuine mistake’.

There is a lot in common in the above two cases.  Whether it was child raping priests, or a government minister committing perjury, both knew they were above the law.  Both knew they can get away with lying, cheating and conniving because their bosses would cover for them.

The Vatican is supposed to be the ultimate authority on matters of morals for Catholics.  The government is supposed to be the ultimate authority on temporal matters.  Both institutions have demonstrated that they are morally bankrupt and are prepared to treat us with utter contempt.

We are on our own.

How low can you get?

December 6th, 2009

In 1970, a ten year old girl, Bernadette Connolly was abducted, raped and murdered in County Donegal.

The crime has never been solved.

The known facts of the case are that a van was seen by several people in the vicinity of the abduction.  That van was owned by the Passionate Order of monks, who had a house in the area.  Suspicion centred on a Father Columba who was a member of the Passionate Order.

Naturally, detectives wanted to interview this Fr Columba, and here is where the mystery begins.

An alibi was provided for Fr Columba by another monk, who said Columba was in Dublin at the time.  Yet an eyewitness said they saw that monk in the van with Columba near the scene of the abduction at the time of the crime.  In the early stages of the investigation, Columba was transferred to Africa.  At every turn, detectives were met with silence and non-cooperation.  Vital evidence, such as Bernadette’s bicycle went missing.    The investigation was eventually stopped at the highest level.

Why did the monastery fail to cooperate?  Why did the Church stop the investigation?

To my mind, there can be only one reason.

We know that the Church are quite willing to shield abusers, paedophiles and rapists.  We know their policy of protecting themselves against any investigation, no matter how guilty they are.

Has the Church sunk so low into the depths of depravity that they will knowingly shield and protect a child murderer?

I thought the Murphy report was bad.

But this just defies all belief.

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